4 September 2011

Adanaxis is an action game where the fundamentals
of space itself are changed by adding a fourth
dimension to space. Initially, it's like learning
to play a 3D FPS for the first time, as the hand
and eye have to learn a whole new type of
coordination. The gameplay involves rapidly
blowing things out of the sky, with the usual
assortment of enemies, allies, weapons, and
power-ups, together with commercially sourced
graphics, audio, and voice acting.

Release Notes: The commercial content for this game is now free to download. For Linux, this means adding a few files to the adanaxisgpl package found in Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Instructions are at mushware.com/x11.

delaboratory is an image postprocessing application. It allows you to modify the color and contrast of a photo in a creative way, using curves, a channel mixer, an equalizer, blur, an unsharp mask, high pass, vignette, dodge/burn, shadows/highlights, and blending in different colorspaces (sRGB, ProPhoto, LAB, CMYK, LCH, HSV, HSL) with floating-point precision. Each operation is stored as an adjustment layer, and you can watch a realtime preview.

slapt-get is an APT-like system for Slackware
package management. It allows you to search
Slackware mirrors and third-party package sources
(such as www.linuxpackages.net) for packages,
compare them with installed packages, and install
new packages or upgrade installed packages, all
with a few simple commands.

Release Notes: This release features updated translations and tweaked regular expressions for package matching used by libslapt applications.

The j661 project provides a generic CDS (or ARINC 661 Server) in order to facilitate the understanding of the ARINC 661 standard, prototype ARINC 661 concepts and architectures, and facilitate the reuse of ARINC 661 specifications and artefacts between projects. The CDS architecture is designed to allow defining the Server behavior to be easily modified or extended. This is achieved by a modular plug-in architecture, allowing customization at runtime without changing anything in the Server core itself.

Release Notes: This is the second release of the Android branch. The Android library for frodo gives much more control for the user on the loading of definition files, selection of properties files, and connection/disconnection. This release supports RotationContainer, BlinkingContainer, and MaskContainer. It adds font and background support for CSS look and feel. It adds focus support for CSS look and feel.

Genit is a framework that builds a static Web site, which does not require a server side programming language or database. Generated sites consist only of XHTML code (plus CSS and media). It runs from the command line, is based on XML, and is designed to be simple, readable, and minimalist.

Release Notes: You can add news to your site with ease. The tag 'var' does not exist anymore. It is replaced by the two-part tag 'here' & 'what'. Put your public files (photo, text, PDF, etc.) in the 'public' folder. Put your JavaScript in the 'scripts' folder. Relative links should be written relative to the root (the index.hmtl file). There is a new '--empty' switch for the 'create' command. There is a new '--doctype' option for the 'create' command. This release fixes bug #38: named anchor crashes the compiler.

Thumbnailator is a thumbnail generation library with a fluent interface for Java. It simplifies the process of producing thumbnails from existing image files and image objects by providing an API which allows for fine tuning of thumbnail generation, while keeping the amount of code that needs to be written to a minimum.

Release Notes: This release adds a user-requested feature to independently specify the scaling factors for the width and height when resizing images.

OpenAPC is an APC (Advanced Process Control) solution that is highly flexible and configurable and covers a wide range of automation, visualization, and process control tasks from home control up to industrial automation. Control applications created with the OpenAPC editor's visual interface can perform several tasks dependent on how the application is configured and used. The application is available for many different platforms, so OpenAPC projects can be switched over to a different platform easily.

Release Notes: This is a service release. It does not offer any new features, but fixes several bugs and problems.

SCCS is an implementation of the POSIX standard Source Code Control System. It is based on the original UNIX SCCS code provided by Sun as part of OpenSolaris and was made portable to other platforms.

Release Notes: SCCS (using the SCCS v6 history file format) now includes a SID specific additional checksum. A new program, sccscvt(1), was added to convert SCCS v4 history files into SCCS v6 history files and vice versa and to compute additional checksums for all releases. The performance was improved by another 20% compared to SCCS 5.03.

Transcribe! is an assistant for working out a
piece of music from a recording. It offers many
features aimed at making the transcription job
smoother and easier, including the ability to slow
down the music without changing its pitch, and to
analyse chords and show you what notes are present.

Release Notes: The principal new feature is a piano roll view showing note guesses over time, aligned with the waveform view. It also adds video display to the Linux version. Many other small improvements and bugfixes were made.

phlyMail is a groupware, webmailer, and PIM. It offers unlimited nested groups, unlimited POP3/IMAP profiles, quotas, an integrated address book, a calendar with multiple reminders and event repetitions, a file manager with an integrated WebDAV server, the ability to send faxes, SMS support (which lets you send SMS, get reminded of events via SMS, and get email notification via SMS), a bookmark manager, themes, and multilingual support. It uses either sendmail or SMTP to send email, and can handle MIME and SSL connections. Support for IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) is included. Through its modular design, it's easy to add completely new features as modules, which can be plugged into the system.

Release Notes: This build fixes issues with generating the archive folder within the "local folders" structure. When using an SSL proxy, one now has to state its host name to allow phlyMail to generate external links correctly. The bundled SabreDAV has been updated to version 1.5.1.

FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on
the SoundFont 2 specifications. It can read MIDI events
from MIDI input devices or files and render them to an
audio device using SoundFont instrument banks. It can
also play MIDI files. Other features include real time
effect control and a powerful API for embedding
FluidSynth in other programs.

Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt GUI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as an everyday quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool, integrating many advanced features that Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are Eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and Eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.

Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt GUI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as an everyday quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool, integrating many advanced features that Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are Eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and Eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.

pybook is a Web-based application to manage your book collection. Although it is Web-based, it's a single-user application and is intended to be installed on your desktop, then accessed from anywhere on your home network or the Internet.

Release Notes: This version can run on Windows and Linux if neither Bonjour nor Avahi are not installed. This is still needed for iPhone synchronization.

AsyncFP is a Scala project with composable actors that interoperate both synchronously and asynchronously. The current focus is on providing a kit for creating high-performance custom NoSQL databases. The small datastore currently under development is a crash-proof in-memory database supporting multiple queries or single update. Updates write to a backing disk file.

Release Notes: Properties have been added to handle runtime parameters and configure systems/subsystems. Transactions now create a context. IncDes factories were simplified.

Cottage is a simple graphics and sound engine implemented on top of HTML 5's canvas and audio elements. It aims to be an easy to use library for Web-based game development.

Release Notes: The code for initializing IEWebGL was updated. The Camera, Sprite, DynamicSpriteManager, GameStates, and Application classes were improved. Cottage Designer was improved. The new library no longer can load the JSON data generated by older versions of Cottage Designer. Some of the test applications were improved. Some bug fixes, code cleanups, and documentation fixes were made.

MSS Code Factory is a rule-based expert system for translating application models to source code.

Release Notes: This release builds a set of HTML Web Form Prototypes, implemented as JEE Java Servlets. The prototype interface is for a database maintenance application, which can then be extended and customized to provide a full application experience.

SchemaCrawler is a Java API which makes working with database metadata as easy as working with ordinary Java objects. It is also a database schema discovery and comprehension and schema documentation tool. You can search for database schema objects using regular expressions, output the schema and data in a readable text format, and find potential design issues with lint . The output is designed to be diff-ed against other database schemas. SchemaCrawler supports almost any database which has a JDBC driver, but for convenience is bundled with drivers for some commonly-used RDBMS systems. SchemaCrawler works with any operating system which supports Java.

Sutekh is a card collection manager for the game
called "Vampire: the Eternal Struggle" (VtES).
Card information is stored in an SQL database
backend. Current functionality includes parsing
information from the official VtES card list and
rulings files, exporting of decks to HTML and
ARDB XML files, flexible filtering of lists of
cards, backing up and restoring of the card
database, configurable selection of which card
information is displayed, and basic deck analysis.

Release Notes: This is the first release of Sutekh in more than a year. The long delay was partially the result of the demise of the White Wolf website which Sutekh used as the source of most of its card data and to the arrival of some significant new features, including a re-written filter dialog and a new profile system for changing how decks are displayed.

Algorithmic Autoregulation is a software system implementing a new self-regulating methodology for coordinating teamwork, based on collaboration and individual merit. It is well-suited for distributed teams, eliminating the need for central management.

Release Notes: The basics of (AA) now work: a commandline client reports when a work session starts, logs developer tweets to the team, then pushes the log to the server which then validates these and displays in an aggregate (AA) feed page for social validation. This version is currently being used for coordinating software development at Lab Macambira.

TMake is a fast, lightweight, yet very powerful Build System. You can use TMake to build projects or create new ones. It supports C, C++, C#, Java, and Go compilers and over 100 different packages. It can perform C and C++ dependency checking. It is very fast. It uses for Lua for plain and simple build scripts. It has a GUI.

Release Notes: Profiles were added, which add the ability for different compilation options depending on whether it is in debug mode, release mode, or anything else. Also, each operating system now has a set of default locations for include directories and library directories, which has made most of the Pick functions deprecated. You should now only use Find functions. Finally, TMake now has support for translations.

Zebra_Database is an advanced, compact (one-file only), lightweight, object-oriented MySQL database wrapper built upon PHP’s MySQL extension. It provides methods for interacting with MySQL databases that are more powerful and intuitive to use than PHP’s default ones. It supports transactions and provides ways for caching query results either by saving cached data on the disk, or by using memcache.The class provides a comprehensive debugging interface with detailed information about the executed queries: execution time, returned/affected rows, excerpts of the found rows, error messages, etc. It also automatically EXPLAIN‘s each SELECT query (so you don’t miss those keys again). It encourages developers to write maintainable code and provides a better default security layer by automatically escaping strings. Zebra_Database‘s code is heavily commented and generates no warnings, errors, or notices when PHP’s error reporting level is set to E_ALL.

Release Notes: The name of the "get_columns" method was changed to "get_table_columns", as it returned the number of columns in a given table. A new "get_columns" method was added, which takes as argument a resource and returns the number of columns in the given resource. Some clarifications in the documentation were also made.